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09/02/2026

Good Food. Grand Gardens.Grammy Award-Winning Entertainment. Great Shopping. Get away to Northern Indiana's rural, relaxing Shipshewana Amish Country. Find out all you'll experience on my new show "Kit's Road Trip America" airing now at prime-time on Fun Roads TV reaching 78+ million U.S. households nationwide.

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08/27/2026

Madtown rolled out the red carpet for the 100th OWAA Anniversary Conference this week. From its five lakes and lush woodlands to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Destination Madison | WI showcased what the only U.S. state capital city built on an isthmus offers to all who love spending time in the outdoors.
Writers, photographers, filmmakers, travel PR pros, gear purveyors, and destination reps from across the USA convened to discuss how to impactfully conserve and protect our country's wild and public lands now and for future generations.
We celebrated the esteemed organization's legacy and its members' powerful storytelling achievements and motivational activism initiatives in circa 1920s flapper and fedora style on awards night commemorating OWAA's founding in Chicago in 1927.
If you have yet to visit Madison, Wisconsin (locals call their beautiful city "Madtown"), well, you're crazy.

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08/13/2026

Elkhart County in Northern Indiana and the Heritage Trail is the perfect first episode for my docu-travel series "Kit's Road Trip America" airing now during prime-time nationwide on Fun Roads TV. Thank you to all the artists, shopkeepers, gardners, guides, culinary pros, and cultural experts for starring in my show.


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See why the scenic route leads to Elkhart County 🏕️

The first episode of Kit's Road Trip America on Fun Roads TV with Kit Travels explores Amish Country in Northern Indiana, following the Heritage Trail through colorful Quilt Gardens, local shops and communities shaped by creativity and craftsmanship.

🔗 Find where you can watch the episode: https://funroads.tv/wheretowatch/
🔗 Plan Your Visit: visitelkhartcounty.com
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08/11/2026

Big News, six years in the making. My docu-travel series "Kit's Road Trip America" is now on Fun Roads TV airing during prime-time slots nationwide in over 83+ million US TV households and more than a dozen streaming platforms including Xumo, Roku, DISH, Sling, Amazon Fire, Spectrum and Xfinity Cable TV STB's.

"Kit's Road Trip America" ("KRT America") shares with viewers untold, authentic stories of diverse communities shaping the ever-evolving American identity. The show features unfamiliar rural and urban places and their distinct cultures' foods, art, celebrations, and outdoor adventures.

My docu-travel series' premier episode is about Northern Indiana's Amish community and the Quilt Gardens, the largest outdoor garden event of its kind. My Emmy Award-winning film crew joined me in Indiana's Elkhart County during the Pandemic to film parts of this episode. Here's Elkhart County CVB's press release announcing their important role in the making of "KRT America" Episode One (See link in bio too): https://www.visitelkhartcounty.com/media/press-releases/elkhart-county-shines-in-the-national-spotlight-in-debut-of-travel-documentary-series/.

Here's where to watch "Kit's Road Trip America" on Fun Roads TV: https://funroads.tv/wheretowatch/.

Stay Tuned for upcoming posts about Northern Indiana's Amish community and how my career has come full circle from my beginnings as a television investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker; then a publicist and marketer for Hilton Hotels and United Airlines; to travel journalist, editor, and photographer; and now back on-air with a nationally broadcast docu-travel series. What an amazing journey and privilege to work with people passionate about where they live and create community.

See you on TV, and down the road. Kit

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08/02/2026

My USA TODAY Co.'s 2026 Hunt & Fish magazine story reports on some Native American Tribes offering through their Fish & Wildlife Departments guided hunting and fishing experiences on their sovereign lands. These special hunts present opportunities to harvest big game and learn from Tribal guides their people's ancestral hunting traditions and cultural practices.

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08/02/2026

My USA TODAY Co.'s 2026 Hunt & Fish magazine story reports on some Native American Tribes offering through their Fish & Wildlife Departments guided hunting and fishing experiences on their sovereign lands. These special hunts present opportunities to harvest big game and learn about from Tribal guides their people's ancestral hunting traditions and cultural practices.

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05/24/2026

For five action-packed days, IPW 2026 inspired and united the nation's travel industry to bring inbound international visitors to the USA. Held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the new waterfront Broward County Convention Center, IPW welcomed 5,200 delegates from over 70 countries and more than 550 top-tier, earned media journalists and influencers from more than 30 countries to learn more about all the USA offers in visitor experiences. Thank you, IPW and Brand USA, for inviting me to attend again "The Super Bowl of U.S. Travel." I've been coming to this travel trade show for more than 20 years. Can't wait for IPW 2027 in New Orleans.

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05/22/2026

IPW 2026 Media Brunch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at The Fort, a 10-acre outdoor sports complex.

05/20/2026

IPW, always on my must attend travel conference list, this year hosted by Greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

05/09/2026

Monolithic Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel atop a 247-acre, granite tidal island rising out of the English Channel has welcomed visitors for centuries. This has always been a very busy place, first attracting in 708 A.D. crowds of devout Roman Catholic pilgrims who believed the Benedictine abbey represented heavenly Jerusalem on Earth, and today millions of tourists. Now priests and nuns from the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem live inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site's fortified, turreted walls.

We got our steps in at Mont-Saint-Michel -- 600 of them around and in the Romanesque and Gothic, hybrid religious-military architectural style complex meticulously restored and maintained to Medieval period perfection. Labyrinthine passages and twisting narrow stone staircases connect a myriad of stone arched rooms stacked upon one another composing a vertical, pyramidal shaped architectural wonder dedicated to archangel Saint Michael.

Visitors enter through the guardhouse's garrison gate and ascend the Grand Degre Staircase. Once inside abbey walls,they pass through centuries of rebuilds and expansions of crypts, chapels, the abbey cathedral, galleried cloister, and refectory. Monks hosted visiting nobility in the impressive Sales du Hotes, whereas they received pilgrims from all walks of life and poor people seeking alms in the modest chaplaincy. Monks studied and copied illustrated manuscripts in the scriptorium featuring soaring, thick leaded glass windows emitting natural light and massive hearths large enough to park a car inside them.

To tour Mont-Saint-Michel is to journey through part of France's complicated history told in stone. It illustrates Medieval Christendom's fervent belief systems and monastic life's strict regime of work and prayer. The holy site became an impregnable fortress during the Hundred Years War against the English, and then a prison in the French Revolution. During World War II, the German Luftwaffe occupied Mont-Saint-Michel. Allied Forces deliberately avoided bombing the historic site symbolic of French national identity.

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